Psych140 Module 4 - Early Childhood - Portage Lear
Psych140 Module 4 - Early Childhood - Portage Lear
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Psych140 Module 4 - Early Childhood - Portage Learning
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Gross motor skills in early childhood - answer-throwing a ball, hopping, catching a ball, running, and kicking a ball
Fine motor skills in early childhood - answer-cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross...
PSYCH140 MODULE 4 - EARLY CHILDHOOD -
PORTAGE LEARNING
Gross motor skills in early childhood - answer-throwing a ball, hopping, catching a ball, running, and
kicking a ball
Fine motor skills in early childhood - answer-cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building blocks, lacing,
cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - answer-gross: jump, throw/catch ball
Fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - answer-gross: walk upstairs alternating both feet, walk downstairs
one foot leading, throw/catch ball
Fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - answer-gross: walk upstairs and downstairs alternating feet, catch
ball with hands
Fine: use a fork, cut on a line with scissors
5-6 years gross & fine motor skills - answer-gross: skip, ride a bike
Fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
Brain development in early childhood - answer-further development of neurons at synapses, myelination,
synaptic pruning
Preoperational stage - answer-in piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during
which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
Substages of preoperational stage - answer-symbolic function and intuitive thought
Symbolic function substage - answer-(ages 2-4( child continues to develop the ability to mentally
represent an object that is not present, working towards abstract thought but not there yet
At the beginning of the preoperational stage, how do children often play? - answer-parallel play (in same
room as other children but play next to them rather than with them)
What is the main function of a child's speech during the preoperational stage? - answer-to externalize the
child's thinking rather than to communicate with others.
Egocentrism - answer-the preoperational child's difficulty of taking another's point of view
Animism - answer-a child's belief that inanimate objects can have human-like qualities such as feelings
Intuitive thought - answer-(ages 4-7) children start to develop reasoning ability to help fulfill the desire to
answer questions
Centration - answer-in piaget's theory, the tendency of a young child to focus only on one feature of an
object while ignoring other relevant features
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